Improvement in stove-pipe shelves



. UNITED STATES JOHN HEQKER BETTS, OF NEV GANAAN, CONNECTICUT.

v IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-PIPE SHE LVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,217, dated May 28,1872.

Specification describinga new and Improved Stove-Pipe Shelf, invented byJOHN HEGKER BETTs, of New Canaan, in the county of Fairfield and Stateof Connecticut.

The invention will first be fully described and then clearly pointed outin the claim.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the stove-pipe and the said bar andsection of two shelves supported by said bar, the section being taken onthe line as w of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 2 is a top view, showing onearrangement of the shelves, whereby they may swing upon theirsupporting-pivots. Fig. 3 is another top view, showing an arrangement ofthe shelf in a fixed position.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the vertical bar, with abase, B, standing on the top of the stove.It is strapped or hooped to the pipe G by the detachably connected hoopsD. E represents the brackets projecting from the side of the bar atintervals along from the bottom upward, and having a pintle or fixedpivot, F, extending upward from the upper side, whereon the shelves Gare to be mounted as shown,by an eye through which the pivot passes, anda shoulder, H, butting against the end I of the bracket. J is abrace ofiron detachably connected to the base B by a pin, K, and to the underside of the shelf by a pin, L, so as to be readily applied with theshelf and taken off. This brace may be used or not, as required. Thelower shelf has a notch at the rear edge fitting against the pipe, so asto be prevented from turning on its pivot; but the pivot-hole of theupper shelf is in the end of an extension, M, which allows it to swingconsiderably to the right or left, as may be required.

Having thus described my invent-ion, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination, with pipe and pipe-shelf, of thesupport A B, pivoted brackets E F, and brace J constructed and arrangedas and for the purpose described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 4th day ofMarch, 1872.

' JOHN H. BETTS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM B. BETTs, (1130. W. MABEE.

